“A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and seeks for forgiveness every time he falls”…… “A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness”

“There are many new sinners today, but there aren’t any new sins, just the old ones clothed in different rags.” ― Billy Graham: (born November 7, 1918: is an American evangelical Christian evangelist)

Gospel Text: (MK 6:53-56)

After making the crossing to the other side of the sea,

Jesus and his disciples came to land at Gennesaret

and tied up there.

As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him.

They scurried about the surrounding country

and began to bring in the sick on mats

to wherever they heard he was.

Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered,

they laid the sick in the marketplaces

and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak;

and as many as touched it were healed.

Everyone needs healing. That’s right…everyone. Some of us might have a need for physical healing, but all of us, every single one of us, has a need for spiritual healing. We’re not all physically ill, but we are all sinners.

Jesus did a lot of things during His public ministry. He preached, He taught, He listened, He warned, He prophesied…but the one thing He did everywhere He went was heal…and He told us not to fear.

You see, physical healing by God is never an end in itself. It always aims at something else, something much greater: the soul’s spiritual healing – to remove our fears, to continue the lifelong conversion that our faith demands of us.